Field Refreshers - Hazard Services

1. Hazard Services Proficiency Practice (OAX; Brian Barjenbruch) 

• Non-River Flooding
  • Google Doc 1 (Internet), 3-20-20 PDF 1
• River Flooding
  • Google Doc 2 (Internet), 3-20-20 PDF 2
  • Supplemental Files - send.csh and clear.ksh
• Summary
  • These refresher exercises are designed for forecasters to run through many of the basic applications of Hazard Services in practice mode.  The first exercise includes manipulating the console, issuing an areal flood advisory/follow-up/correction, issuing a flash flood warning/statement, issuing a flash flood watch and adjusting proposed counties, using the dam-break recommender to issue a non-convective flash flood watch, upgrading an areal flood advisory to a flash flood warning, transitioning a flash flood warning to an areal flood warning, and entering service backup. The second exercise has the student run scripts (send.csh and clear.ksh) at five different times to populate a fake forecast point and step through the life cycle of watch/warning/flood stage increase/cancellation.

2. CLE Jobsheets (CLE; Sarah Jamison)

• Hazard Services Jobsheets Google Doc (Internet), 3/23/20 PDF
• Hazard Services Watches and River Floods Reference Google Doc (Internet), 6/5/20 PDF
• Summary
  • The jobsheets are for refresher activities including: basic functions of the drawing tools/console/timeline, issuing flood watches and adding/removing counties and separating/combining multiple segments, issuing non-river flood warnings/advisories and upgrades/downgrades, using the flash flood recommender, correcting a product, running the river flood recommender, and service backup.
  • The watches and river floods reference contains references to videos on the Internet and reminders of key steps for using Hazard Services.

3. Create Test Data CAVE Startup Script (ALY; Vasil Koleci)

• runHazardServicesTest.sh and createTestdata.sh
• Summary
  • The runHazardServicesTest.sh script launches a CAVE session in practice mode and calls createTestdata.sh to populate a fake river forecast point with data using the CreateRiverFloodScenario.py program used in the Create River Flood Scenario focal point jobsheet.

4. Hazard_Services Quick Reference (BOU; David Tomalak)

• HS_Quick_reference Google Doc, 7/21/2020 PDF
• Summary
  • This quick-reference contains a short list of steps for non-river flood watches, non-river flood advisories/warnings, river flood advisories/warnings, and service backup.

To contribute to the refreshers, please contact Michael.A.Magsig@noaa.gov.